Author ProfileHarold MacGrath

Biography:

Syracuse, NY reporter turned novelist and screenwriter, Harold MacGrath (1871-1932) published his first romance novel, Arms and the Woman, in 1899. Several more bestselling romance, adventure and mystery novels followed, including Half a Rogue
(1906) and A Splendid Hazard (1910). MacGrath's screenplays include The Drums of Jeopardy, released in 1923.

This is an enchanting little story about a princess who refuses to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather. A mock marriage with someone else does not delay the arranged marriage. Then, she meets and falls in love with a mysterious, handsome stranger. Is he the answer to her marriage problems?

The Grand Duke's daughter is missing from the imaginary realm of Ehrenstein, and he suspects evildoing by the neighboring Jugendheit. Just when he is considering war, the peasant girl Gretchen comes to Ehrenstein and stuns all with her educated ways. Uncovering the goose girl's true identity is key.

Twenty-year-old Alice takes on a new identity to fight her boredom while living at the country estate of her uncle. Along comes a famous author, also hiding his true identity. When the two meet at a masquerade ball, who will be the first to raise the mask and reveal the truth?

Opera star Nora Harrigan is a success on the stage, and enjoys the attentions of many suitors, including Edward Courtlandt and Herr Rosen. Things turn dark when Nora is abducted and accuses one of them of arranging the deed. Or is Nora's rival in song and love, Flora Desimone, somehow responsible?

The London fog can hide a lot of things, including the thief who has stolen a sapphire necklace from Kitty Killigrew. She has heard parts of a conversation in the mist, however, that might simplify solving the case but complicate her new romantic interest.

The masked man in the grey cloak is a mystery ... is he the man who killed the Comte? Or is he among the gentlemen courting the beautiful new widow? Either way he faces dramatic challenges at swordpoint in this swashbuckling romantic adventure.

Jane Norman, a Red Cross nurse from America, comes to Shanghai by chance, under the spell of fate. In China and on the sea, Jane wears beautiful beads with a mysterious past that captures the attention of romantic rivals and plotting pirates alike, taking Jane on the adventure of her life.

Young newspaper reporter John Winthrop's luck needs to change. He suffers a double loss of love and money that shocks him, but not as much as the reversals of fortune to come. Romance and riches may find him yet in this 19th century romance.

A romance cliffhanger tells the story of a young woman who gets captured by a handsome villain and caught up in a search for jewels after traveling to India with her family - the first of several perils she has to endure. The novel was one of the first cliffhanger style novels which was made into a
serial-style film.